Limitation on amount of cost-share assistance; allocation of funds for reforestation of sixteenth section school trust lands.

Miss. Code Ann. § 49-19-221
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An eligible owner shall receive cost-share assistance as the commission, in its discretion, shall determine and approve, but the commission shall approve no assistance in an amount which exceeds either (a) a sum equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of the owner’s actual cost incurred in implementing the approved practice approved by the commission for that owner on a particular tract of land or lands, except that with respect to sixteenth section school trust lands the commission may approve up to one hundred percent (100%) cost-share for any school district that has less has than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) in its Forestry Escrow Fund, or (b) a sum equal to Thirty-seven Dollars and Fifty Cents ($37.50) per acre of land on which the approved practice is implemented by the owner; provided, however, that no eligible owner, in any one (1) fiscal year, shall receive a sum total for all approved practices implemented by the owner of more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00); except that with respect to sixteenth section trust lands the commission, at its discretion, may exceed said monetary limit in order to provide a total forest improvement program within any county. The limitation of Thirty-seven Dollars and Fifty Cents ($37.50) per acre, as set forth in item (b) of subsection (1) of this section, may be changed by the commission pursuant to the authorization of subparagraph (c) of Section 49-19-219. During the reforestation of sixteenth section school trust lands classified as forest lands, no more than an average of twenty-five percent (25%) of Forest Resource Development Program funds will be spent on the reforestation of these school trust lands. It is the intent of this section that the Mississippi Forestry Commission by 1995 bring to maximum productivity all sixteenth section land.

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